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Tell el-Fara'in

Alternative site names: 
Buto; Bouto; Tell el Farain; Tell el-Fararin
Arabic site names: 
بوتو‎,
Site description: 

As the site that was the home of the tutelary goddess of Lower Egypt, Wadjit, it has been occupied since the Predynastic Period.  The site is comprised of three mounds, two of which are settlements with the third covering the temple. Because of the watertable, early stratification layers are difficult to excavate but an administrative centre/palace was uncovered in the Early Dynastic Period. The site was abandoned in the Old Kingdom before being resettled in the 8th century BCE. 

Type of site: 
Town
Timeframe: 
Town (Predynastic Period to Graeco-Roman Period)
Relevant publications: 

Anonymous (ed.) 1968. Exhibition of recent discoveries in Egypt and the Sudan by the Egypt Exploration Society at The British Museum 16th October - 30th November, 1968. London: Egypt Exploration Society.

Charlesworth, Dorothy 1970. The Tell el-Farâ'în excavation, 1969. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 56, 19-28.

Charlesworth, Dorothy 1972. Tell el-Fara'in, Egypt: an industrial site in the Nile Delta. Archaeology 25 (1), 44-47.

Megaw, A. H. S., J. B. Ward Perkins, Kathleen Kenyon, Michael Gough, Neville Chittick, and W. B. Emery 1965. British archaeology abroad, 1964: [Fieldwork in Egyptian and Sudanese Nubia]. Antiquity 39, 33-44.

Tags: 
Buto [2]
Bouto [3]
Tell el Farain [4]
Tell el-Fararin [5]
Tell el-Fara'in [6]
Town [7]
Source URL: https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/node/1172

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